Posts Tagged: Interview

Markus Zusak imagines interviews as conversations in a kitchen (his favourite room in the house), and likens finding the voice of his novel to hitting the right note while singing in the bathroom. Before allowing me a glimpse into his mind palace, he meets me warmly, with the playfulness and humility of someone seeminglyunaware of… Read more »

Peter Bergen The seismic shift in world order has led to us ‘flirting with the idea of a post-American world’. As a national security analyst, how do you interpret its impact on the USA’s foreign relations? We now have four big centres of power – United States, India, China and the European Union. The US… Read more »

What was your primary hope for the Jaipur Literature Festival when you started? I hoped to draw attention to the fact that the problems of the world are the same across all regions and we need to respect that different parts of the world find different solutions to the challenges. I wanted to create a… Read more »

The best artists are those who inhabit various disciplines and interpret the world in radically different ways. Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, but he was also trying to discover a means for humans to fly. Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita; one of the masterpieces of 20th Century Literature, but his professional training was that of a country doctor. Molly… Read more »

Mrs. Sen, Udayan, Subhash, Gouri and many more characters emerged from their stories and walked around the Front Lawns of Diggi Palace today, as their creator, Pulitzer Prize winner JhumpaLahiri took the audience on an intimate journey into her imagination. Lahiri described how her experiences in childhood and adolescence contributed to her plots. Discussing her latest novel The Lowlands, she… Read more »

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, one of Britain’s top celebrity chefs, opened the British Airways Baithak tent at the 2014 ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. Fearnley-Whittingstall’s hugely popular River Cottage series of cookbooks and television shows have succeeded in raising people’s awareness of the origins of their food, while never losing sight of the real priority: to have a good dinner. Fearnley-Whittingstall described his campaign against the… Read more »